Abstract Epistles fill Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark. The most prominent is Vincent’s letter, which ends Anna’s relationship with Walter and erases her at the level of the written word. In the letter, Vincent replaces Anna’s experiences with maudlin sentiments and includes a postscript requesting her return of Walter’s letters. This article focuses on Anna’s relegation to the postscript of Vincent’s letter, and by extension, to the subtext of her society’s dominant discourses. Examining the narrative’s structure (in particular, the disproportionate quartering of its sections and its circularity), and considering Anna’s relation to subaltern figures, I address Rhys’s strategy of writing Anna’s story both against dominant discourses and within the subtext to which those discourses relegate her. I argue that the novel, read as a ‘post-scripted’ transmission, establishes a communicative impasse that problematizes the recovery of lost voices.

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让·里斯的《黑暗中的航行》中的后脚本传输

让·里斯的《黑暗中的航行》充满了抽象的书信。最突出的是文森特的信，它结束了安娜与沃尔特的关系，并在文字层面抹去了她。在信中，文森特用悲伤的情绪代替了安娜的经历，并附上了要求她归还沃尔特信件的附言。本文重点关注安娜被归为文森特信件的附言，进而归入她所在社会主流话语的潜台词。检查叙述的结构（特别是其部分的不成比例的四等分及其循环性），并考虑到安娜与底层人物的关系，我讨论了里斯的写作策略，即反对主流话语并在这些话语将她置于次要地位的潜台词中。我认为小说，